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and any given city whether you're sitting in new york or london where many of our viewers are there is a cab industry and very likely regulations that govern it in new york the medallion system has become a speculative investment with corporate tax the medallions increasing a thousand per cent from their average price of fifty thousand dollars in one thousand nine hundred eighty according to the new york post in stockholm reportedly their system is a little freer market where taxis are allowed to charge whatever price they like and in d.c. where after countless nights waiting in long lines after arriving to the train station with a dearth of cabs and some that couldn't even drive to my address because of the limits of their permits and rules governing them i hopped into a couple cabs to explore our own cities silly regulations and one market antidote we possibly found them taxi. taxi in washington d.c. like many other cities you can't always get a cab when and where you need one but when you do catch a taxi and meet its driver and my name is not. i was right you know it's almost for yo
and any given city whether you're sitting in new york or london where many of our viewers are there is a cab industry and very likely regulations that govern it in new york the medallion system has become a speculative investment with corporate tax the medallions increasing a thousand per cent from their average price of fifty thousand dollars in one thousand nine hundred eighty according to the new york post in stockholm reportedly their system is a little freer market where taxis are allowed...
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within fifteen months according to the new york times a reminder of the bailouts in two thousand and eight of course but instead of government bailouts how about innovating out of a slowdown or changing your business model we'll talk to the c.e.o. of car to go north america about dialers adventure in car sharing and revenue to no revenue c.b.s. reports instagram is looking for ways to generate some revenue through ads but it will not pimp out its users in ads it backtracked after unleashing a whole bunch of hoopla yesterday after a change to its terms we'll talk about it let's get to today's capital account. so in addition to the one point five billion dollars settlement and guilty plea to a charge of fraud from its japanese subsidiary we now know u.b.s. traders were sending e-mails saying things like i want to do one humongous deal with you when i'll pay you whatever you want to secure help manipulating rates now this language is infuriating but at least it's way more straightforward than what we get from this same rate manipulator the fed now despite ben bernanke in the past sugges
within fifteen months according to the new york times a reminder of the bailouts in two thousand and eight of course but instead of government bailouts how about innovating out of a slowdown or changing your business model we'll talk to the c.e.o. of car to go north america about dialers adventure in car sharing and revenue to no revenue c.b.s. reports instagram is looking for ways to generate some revenue through ads but it will not pimp out its users in ads it backtracked after unleashing a...
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of new york city my opinion your city and. there's no reason there's no bridges no no no i don't know civilian. life is a dance played. through fire let's just be honest here for a moment for some people this is and justifiably so a battle about a police state since one nine hundred eighty the number of people in prison per capita in the united states has more than tripled we now in prison a greater percentage of our population than any other country in the world in fact the united states is only five percent of the world population has twenty five percent of the world's prison population in the u.s. one in every one hundred six white males aged eighteen or over is incarcerated for hispanic males that number is one in thirty six and one in fifteen black males over eighteen is currently in jail between one thousand nine hundred seven and two thousand and seven state spending on incarceration related expenses increased one hundred twenty seven percent while spending on higher education during that same period rose a mere twenty
of new york city my opinion your city and. there's no reason there's no bridges no no no i don't know civilian. life is a dance played. through fire let's just be honest here for a moment for some people this is and justifiably so a battle about a police state since one nine hundred eighty the number of people in prison per capita in the united states has more than tripled we now in prison a greater percentage of our population than any other country in the world in fact the united states is...
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more giving how do you do that new york city i live in cincinnati i'd be. in reading about i want to eat song going to do it this time and why didn't you eat better and twenty twelve no i read a book about fasting fasting for two days a week so that's what i'm going to do get that's not going to work here's resolution eat less muffins you know. to take care of myself better eat less muffin no muffins are great push against it use the gym that's what it usually is but it's nice to last for a while. you're going to make the same one that you break and you think a lot of people do that yeah i think so not to be so hard on myself joy life that's a good one it's kind of like the anti resolution more like i'm just going to relax a little but. that's probably when you can stick to your but why don't you start now because i crave cigarettes a lot you still have them so you're going to smoke yeah and once you don't have any more throughout a current of cigarettes you're going to smoke your brains out until january first yeah and so january first if you do decide to
more giving how do you do that new york city i live in cincinnati i'd be. in reading about i want to eat song going to do it this time and why didn't you eat better and twenty twelve no i read a book about fasting fasting for two days a week so that's what i'm going to do get that's not going to work here's resolution eat less muffins you know. to take care of myself better eat less muffin no muffins are great push against it use the gym that's what it usually is but it's nice to last for a...
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one joins us now from our new york studios welcome. great to have you with us so what was the scene like today. well it was great you know seeing how the workers were all workers and supporting each other you know. it was awesome how many people were showed up and what was going on you know what was your sense of any interesting stories from it to share with us. in the car wash where i used to work they wouldn't give us no supplies no boots and gloves you know we will what will acid almost things that will go in your hands and so your. participation in this was to try and get better working conditions that it would be better can this in since we get paid fit the. china you know china pay seven twenty five five fifteen hour that's below the federal minimum wage how do they how do they pull that off well basically they have there's a lot them for car washing car washes where they had they supposed at the tip to the to the paycheck to make it look like seven twenty five but what they doing is the force of the you know they put him on it i
one joins us now from our new york studios welcome. great to have you with us so what was the scene like today. well it was great you know seeing how the workers were all workers and supporting each other you know. it was awesome how many people were showed up and what was going on you know what was your sense of any interesting stories from it to share with us. in the car wash where i used to work they wouldn't give us no supplies no boots and gloves you know we will what will acid almost...
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york times of this issue can't be sorted out dock workers are set to begin their strike on sunday it's estimated that a strike at the ports could cost the region one hundred ten million dollars in economic output while the dock workers have it better than most workers across america they are one of the last groups left to have union contracts we share increases in productivity and profits with the workers and considering that as this chart shows workers across america have seen their productivity increase while their wages have stagnated since the late seventy's early eighty's and this labor battle on the east coast is to quote joe biden b f d joining me now is richard wolffe economist and author of numerous books including his latest democracy a work of cure for capitalism after wolf welcome back thank you ray in your mind what does the struggle on the east coast all about. well it's a classic example of a kind of endgame in which years of suppressing wage increases of keeping down the wages of american workers well below the increased productivity they've achieved boosting profits at
york times of this issue can't be sorted out dock workers are set to begin their strike on sunday it's estimated that a strike at the ports could cost the region one hundred ten million dollars in economic output while the dock workers have it better than most workers across america they are one of the last groups left to have union contracts we share increases in productivity and profits with the workers and considering that as this chart shows workers across america have seen their...
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york and princeton university says he's never been under any illusions and so for russia u.s. relations. there's an old russian saying words are also deeds a lot of people in moscow and washington may pass the magnitsky act and now the ban on adoption in moscow may have thought they were just talking showing off playing grandstand politically as we say in america but these words have consequences they have bet very few all this new cold war atmosphere which is enveloping the relationship between our two countries it's going to affect american relations with russia regarding afghanistan regarding missile defense regarding syria regarding iran these are very serious matters obama has continued the policy toward moscow begun by president clinton a democrat and continued by president bush a republican that policy is advancing nato toward russia's borders building missile defense on russia's borders interfering in russia's interest politics most recently the street demonstrations this is the same policy with again twenty years ago with the soviet union. were reporting since neither
york and princeton university says he's never been under any illusions and so for russia u.s. relations. there's an old russian saying words are also deeds a lot of people in moscow and washington may pass the magnitsky act and now the ban on adoption in moscow may have thought they were just talking showing off playing grandstand politically as we say in america but these words have consequences they have bet very few all this new cold war atmosphere which is enveloping the relationship...
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york. well everyone we have breaking news to bring to you i know earlier in the show we sort of talked about how the fiscal cliff vote was near will guess what there are some changes that happen in the last few minutes it turns out the house will not vote tonight on any budget negotiations and this could very much mean that we will indeed go over the so-called fiscal cliff again the house will not be taking a vote tonight a whole lot in that deal that still had not been worked out not sure exactly why though here at four thirty in the afternoon i hear eastern time that they just decided to call it quits and not have a vote we are going to stay on this story and we're going to have an update for you on what this all means tonight at five pm. thanks so much for watching. his easy. going. i've. a.
york. well everyone we have breaking news to bring to you i know earlier in the show we sort of talked about how the fiscal cliff vote was near will guess what there are some changes that happen in the last few minutes it turns out the house will not vote tonight on any budget negotiations and this could very much mean that we will indeed go over the so-called fiscal cliff again the house will not be taking a vote tonight a whole lot in that deal that still had not been worked out not sure...
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correspondent understand theater going to from new york and she brought us more on the teens who were captured. for the last several years what has been going on is over two hundred afghan teenagers that were captured a detained as a result of the fight against the taliban and al qaeda in afghanistan and held at a u.s. military prison. air base and the shocking numbers here are that the age of these people was on average sixteen years old sixteen year old kids and like you rightfully say the concern here is that a lot of them were a lot younger we're talking about twelve thirteen fourteen year old kids held for an average of a year and curiously in many of these cases we're talking about brothers here who are sitting at a home and just captured on detained and taken into this military prison because there are so expect it of being an enemy combatants and in many cases it's important to underline here that these teenagers were not wearing military uniforms they were not participating in combat they were just suspected of being enemy combatants and they were taken in and like you just s
correspondent understand theater going to from new york and she brought us more on the teens who were captured. for the last several years what has been going on is over two hundred afghan teenagers that were captured a detained as a result of the fight against the taliban and al qaeda in afghanistan and held at a u.s. military prison. air base and the shocking numbers here are that the age of these people was on average sixteen years old sixteen year old kids and like you rightfully say the...
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year's night from moscow and you go to new york a new year's new year's eve day for america christine is so good to see you you've been a busy lady for two thousand and twelve could you can you bring us up to date on some of the key stories that you covered for america. well happy new year everyone it's good to see you as you mentioned we still have a few more hours before our ball drops before the fireworks go off but you are right it has been an extraordinarily busy year an extraordinarily interesting year here in the united states of course we have the presidential election as you guys know i'm often sitting there in the briefing rooms here in washington and at the white house sometimes getting called on a lot of time just sort of listening to the messaging coming out we saw this both before and after the election one of the highlights i think for me really was you know hosting those several hours of election coverage on election night it's always exciting especially when you know you don't exactly know what's going to happen or how things are going to shake out so that was certain
year's night from moscow and you go to new york a new year's new year's eve day for america christine is so good to see you you've been a busy lady for two thousand and twelve could you can you bring us up to date on some of the key stories that you covered for america. well happy new year everyone it's good to see you as you mentioned we still have a few more hours before our ball drops before the fireworks go off but you are right it has been an extraordinarily busy year an extraordinarily...
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york thanks so much for your reporting. also ahead on our team for being the most transparent administration in history and there are so numerous questions the obama administration refuses to answer about a few of them straight ahead. well today is bradley manning's twenty fifth birthday he spent the better part of his twenty's behind bars charged with leaking thousands of classified documents to the whistle blowing web site which. but of all of. that there are horrific crimes outlined in some of these documents and also shown in this video of two apache helicopter pilots gunning down people on the ground below them now there is still a lot we don't know about this case but from what we understand bradley manning a private first class army intelligence analyst thought he was reporting wrongdoing now he's the one accused of committing wrong it has been a common thread woven throughout history of blaming the messenger and then stifling discussion about the actual message over the last four years tactics have included cutting
york thanks so much for your reporting. also ahead on our team for being the most transparent administration in history and there are so numerous questions the obama administration refuses to answer about a few of them straight ahead. well today is bradley manning's twenty fifth birthday he spent the better part of his twenty's behind bars charged with leaking thousands of classified documents to the whistle blowing web site which. but of all of. that there are horrific crimes outlined in some...
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york and around the country and that the f.b.i. at the department of homeland security were basically in partnership with. corporate america which is really really frightening and what are the terms that the f.b.i. invoked was this distant messick terrorists terms so i have a few questions based on that first of all what is considered to fall into the realm of a domestic terrorist or domestic terrorism and second does this apply to the occupy movement does it merit that title. i think that they're using a very broad definition of violence to discuss domestic terrorism because obviously an act of terrorism is doing something that's going to kill a lot of people blowing something up something that's far more. terrible and life threatening than just a couple of people assembled in civil protest so i think that they really just ran with the possibility that could get violent and use that to create to manufacture this threat of domestic terrorism because that's really what the f.b.i. has done in a lot of these terrorism cases as you saw
york and around the country and that the f.b.i. at the department of homeland security were basically in partnership with. corporate america which is really really frightening and what are the terms that the f.b.i. invoked was this distant messick terrorists terms so i have a few questions based on that first of all what is considered to fall into the realm of a domestic terrorist or domestic terrorism and second does this apply to the occupy movement does it merit that title. i think that...
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york times article back in two thousand and seven explaining our seven years on the wal-mart board of directors continued to play a part in her life quote mrs clinton maintains close ties to wal-mart executives to the democratic party and the tightly knit arkansas business community her husband former president bill clinton speaks frequently to wal-mart's current chief executive h. least jr and it's not just their board of directors momart is also a founding member of an organization called business forward which is dedicated to quote help bring more business leaders into the policy making process but do we really need more business leaders in the policymaking process to discuss this i'm joined now by rachel curteous a producer here at r t so rachel can you tell us more about this organization move forward sure so business forward is essentially an organization designed to make sure that business leaders get the chance to speak to high level government officials and luckily for us jim doyle the president and founder of business forward was on c.-span this morning so i thought it might
york times article back in two thousand and seven explaining our seven years on the wal-mart board of directors continued to play a part in her life quote mrs clinton maintains close ties to wal-mart executives to the democratic party and the tightly knit arkansas business community her husband former president bill clinton speaks frequently to wal-mart's current chief executive h. least jr and it's not just their board of directors momart is also a founding member of an organization called...
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tonight we have a special bigger picture discussion on the middle east history was made in new york city yesterday as the united nations general assembly approved a resolution that implicitly recognizes palestinian statehood in a vote of one hundred thirty eight to nine with forty one nations abstaining the u.n. elevated the palestinian authority's u.n. observer status from entity to nonmember state so what are the ramifications of that un decision and what are the key issues preventing peaceful and constructive negotiations between israel and the palestinians joining me now is dylan jay williams director of government affairs at the pro peace pro israel group j. street and dr hussein ibish senior fellow at the american task force on palestine a.t.f. heat and executive director of the hawse a law suit a foundation for arab american leadership thank you both for joining me thank you very much pronouncing everything oh yeah. ok first of all just in general the consequences of what happened at the u.n. yesterday let's just begin with that it. remains to be seen really the the fallout is not
tonight we have a special bigger picture discussion on the middle east history was made in new york city yesterday as the united nations general assembly approved a resolution that implicitly recognizes palestinian statehood in a vote of one hundred thirty eight to nine with forty one nations abstaining the u.n. elevated the palestinian authority's u.n. observer status from entity to nonmember state so what are the ramifications of that un decision and what are the key issues preventing...
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york thanks so much for your reporting well today as bradley manning's twenty fifth birthday he spent the better part of his twenty's behind bars charged with leaking thousands of classified documents to the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks. there are horrific crimes outlined in these documents and also showing in this video of two apache helicopter pilots gunning down people on the ground below them now there is a lot we don't know about this case but from what we understand bradley manning a private first class army intelligence analyst thought he was reporting wrongdoing now he is a want to accuse of committing wrong this has been a common thread woven throughout history of blaming the messenger and then stifling discussion about the message over the last four years that tactics have included cutting off funding to wiki leaks keeping private manning not only behind bars but for the first ten months of his in-car carse aeration in solitary confinement even under the harsh u.s. military laws denying a soldier the ability to talk with others to go outside to wear clothes than i am
york thanks so much for your reporting well today as bradley manning's twenty fifth birthday he spent the better part of his twenty's behind bars charged with leaking thousands of classified documents to the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks. there are horrific crimes outlined in these documents and also showing in this video of two apache helicopter pilots gunning down people on the ground below them now there is a lot we don't know about this case but from what we understand bradley manning...